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Many of the early successful franchisees would probably not have assets (converted to present value) sufficient to join Big Boy today. By 1979, there were more than a thousand Big Boy restaurants in the U.S. and Canada, and about 20 franchisees. Shoney's, Elias Brothers and Frisch's—charter franchisees—controlled the vast majority. [122]
Schoenbaum was born in Petersburg, Virginia to Emil B. (1884 - 1962) who was born in Poland, and Goldie R. (1879 - 1951) (née Masinter), who was born in Lithuania. Alex grew up in West Virginia with three brothers, and worked in his father's bowling establishments in Charleston and Huntington.
After meeting with Big Boy founder Bob Wian in 1951, Schoenbaum became a Big Boy franchisee on February 7, 1952, now calling his several locations the Parkette Big Boy Shoppes. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In May 1954, a public "Name the Parkette Big Boy Contest" was announced, and in June 1954 Schoenbaum's five Parkette Drive-Ins were rebranded as Shoney's.
Frisch's Big Boy has hit another roadblock. On Wednesday, we reported that nearly a quarter of Frisch's restaurants owe millions of dollars in rent and are facing eviction. A statement from the ...
That’s how we got Frisch’s Big Boy, the main operator of Big Boy restaurants in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee. While at one point Frisch’s Big Boy had 200 locations in the Midwest ...
The Frisch’s Big Boy on Plainfield Rd. in Blue Ash. A Hamilton County magistrate on Wednesday approved the eviction of Frisch's Big Boys restaurants from six sites, giving them seven days to ...
The restaurant started as a 10-stool hamburger stand in Glendale, California, opening in 1936 with an investment of $300 raised from the sale of his car. Wian sold Bob's Big Boy and rights to the Big Boy chain to the Marriott Corp. in 1967 for $7 million [ 4 ] ($64 million in 2023).
Bob's Big Boy is a casual dining restaurant chain founded by Bob Wian in Southern California in 1936, originally named Bob's Pantry. [2] [3] The chain's signature product is the Big Boy hamburger, which Wian created six months after opening his original location.